Plants
Jesus keeps reaching for plants when he wants to say something plain. A tree is known by what it grows: “every good tree bringeth forth good fruit” (Matthew 7:17). Wildflowers show that worry is wasted effort: “Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow” (Matthew 6:28). Paul turns to a buried seed to explain what comes after death, saying “God giveth it a body as it hath pleased him” (1 Corinthians 15:38). In each case something ordinary carries a weighty truth, and the garden or the field becomes the lesson. Matthew 6:25-34 is a gentle place to start.
11 verses
Matthew
And why take ye thought for raiment? Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow; they toil not, neither do they spin:
And yet I say unto you, That even Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these.
Ye shall know them by their fruits. Do men gather grapes of thorns, or figs of thistles?
Even so every good tree bringeth forth good fruit; but a corrupt tree bringeth forth evil fruit.
A good tree cannot bring forth evil fruit, neither can a corrupt tree bring forth good fruit.
Wherefore by their fruits ye shall know them.
Luke
1 Corinthians
Thou fool, that which thou sowest is not quickened, except it die:
And that which thou sowest, thou sowest not that body that shall be, but bare grain, it may chance of wheat, or of some other grain:
But God giveth it a body as it hath pleased him, and to every seed his own body.